Andrew Forward's Portfolio

Head Office

4079914 Canada Inc.
111 Pretoria Ave
Ottawa, ON, CA K1S 1W8

Contact 

Email: aforward@gmail.com
Skype: aforward78
Phone: 613-795-5273

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Custom Software

Web Applications, APIs, Analytics.

Release early, release often

Test-Driven / Behaviour Driven

Java, Ruby, PHP, C#

Ottawa area of telecommute

Automation

Already have a great team? Just need help with the development infrastructure? We can help introduce automation into the process including testing, metrics, and deployment.

Continuous Integration

Testing (xUnit, Selenium, WebTest)

Metrics (Code Coverage, KLOCs)

Documentation (JavaDocs, APIs)

DevOps

Bring automation to the next level, with infrastructure-as-code like programming to help manage your XAAS offering.

Using Chef, Docker

Running Rackspace, Digital Ocean

Manage Build Scripts

Automate Deployment

Script Environments (Testing, Staging, Production)

Andrew Forward

Andrew was the first graduate of an accredited software engineering program in Canada. He also holds a Master's and PhD in computer science focussing on automation, documentation, software quality and system modelling.

He works as a software developer in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, and ASP.Net. His technical strengths include software construction, automation, testing, deployment. His's management strengths include mentoring, and teaching.

Andrew has integrated agile practices like test-driven development, and continuous integration into Deloitte (Ottawa branch), Tresury Board Secretariate and Library and Archives Canada (two Canadian government departments), and CENX.

Databases

MS Access, MS SQL, SQLServer, MySQL, Oracle (8i, 10g), PostgreSQL, Redis, Riak

Code Repositories

CVS, ClearCase, Git, RCS, Subversion (SVN), Visual Source Safe (VSS)

Languages

Ant, ASP, ASP.NET, Ajax, Bash, C#, Capistrano, Crontab, DNS, CSS, Elixir, HTML, HTTP/S, Java J2SE, J2EE, JavaScript, JavaServerFaces (JSF), JSON, JSP, NAnt, NDoc, Perl, Phing, PHP, PL/SQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Selenium, SOAP, TCP/IP, UDP, UML, Umple, VB6, VBScript, Webtest, XHTML, XML

Servers

Amazon S3 (Cloud Computing), Apache, CruiseControl, CruiseControl.net, GitHub, Heroku, IIS, LAMP, Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), Mac OS X, Mongrel, Nginx, Passenger, phpUnderControl, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Tomcat, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7.

Software Development

Chrome, Eclipse, FireFox, HttpUnit, ImageMagic, Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9, JsUnit, JUnit , Komodo, MiniMagick, MonoDevelop, Netscape, Notepad++, NUnit, NUnitAsp , Opera, PHPUnit , RadRails, Selenium, SharpDevelop, SimpleTest, SqlDeveloper, VisualStudio.Net, TextMate, Toad, WebTest, XCode, Sublime Text, Bugzilla, Continuous Integration (CI), FogBugz, Fusebox Framework, PayPal, Stripe, PHPDocumentor, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Zend Framework, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Semantic Web

Project Management

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Common Look and Feel (CLF2.0), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), JavaDoc, Keynote, Pages, Lighthouse, Mantis, Jira, Microsoft Office (MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, Visio), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Model Driven Development (MDD, MDSD), NDoc, Object-Oriented Software Development, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), System Testing, Test-Driven Design (TDD), Traceability, Unit Testing, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Usability Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), W3C

Value Added Skill Set

Strong academic background in computer science and software engineering

Large-project experience working with and coordinating among teams as large as 50 developers

Ability to lead and motivate other in a team environment in English or French

Academic and professional exposure to various Internet issues including protocols, infrastructure (LAN, VSC), browsers, plugins security, design and graphics

Well-balanced, focused individual who is flexible to change.

Sensitive attitude towards data and application security

Software engineering focusing on architecture, modeling, methodology, documentation, SDLC and security for internet based applications